194 LAWS OP MARYLAND. [CH. 54

ers, workmen or mechanics may be worked more than six
hours per calendar day but not exceeding thirty hours per
calendar week. Provided further, that in all cases of labor-
ers, workman or mechanics being required to work more
than six hours per calendar day, said laborers, workmen or
mechanics shall be paid at the general prevailing rate for
legal holidays and overtime work for each hour worked in
excess of six-hours in any one calendar day.

102B. Not less than the general prevailing rate of per
diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality
in which the work is performed and not less than the gen-
eral prevailing rate of per diem wages for legal holidays
and overtime work shall be paid to laborers, workmen and
mechanics employed by a contractor or sub-contractor in
the execution of any contract or contracts for the City of
Cumberland.

102C. The Mayor and City Council shall have the power
and authority, and shall fix and determine, from time to
time, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the
locality in which the work is to be performed for each
craft or type of workman or mechanic needed to execute
the contract, and the Mayor and City Council or other pub-
lic body awarding the contract shall specify in the call for
bids for said contract, and in the contract itself, what the
general prevailing rate of per diem wages in the said local-
ity is for each craft or type of workman or mechanic needed
to execute the contract and also the general prevailing rate
for legal holiday and overtime work, and it shall be man-
datory upon the contractor to whom the contract is award-
ed, and upon any sub-contractor under him, to pay not less
than the said specified rate to all laborers, workmen and
mechanics employed by him or them, as the case may be,
in the execution of the contract. The contractor shall for-
feit as a penalty to the City of Cumberland Ten Dollars
($10. 00) for each laborer, workman or mechanic employed
for each calendar day, or portion thereof, such laborer,
workman or mechanic is paid less than the stipulated rates
for any work done under said contract by him or by any
sub-contractor under him, and a stipulation to this effect
shall be inserted in the contract by the Mayor and City
Council or other public body awarding the contract. It
shall be the duty of the Mayor and City Council to take
cognizances of complaints of all violations of the provisions
of this sub-title committed in the course of the execution
of any contract, and when making payments to the con-